Microsoft’s Copilot AI Snapdragon X Elite PCs
I’m a longtime iPhone and Mac user who isn’t likely to switch to a new ecosystem anytime soon. It’s not just about iOS or macOS. It’s about having these devices…
US says Russian hackers stole federal government emails during Microsoft cyberattack
U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has confirmed that Russian government-backed hackers stole emails from several U.S. federal agencies as a result of an ongoing cyberattack at Microsoft. In…
Xbox Cloud Gaming’s newest feature is the future of gaming
I’ve messed with Xbox Cloud Gaming a number of times and have had some good and some bad experiences, but I’ve always felt that someday it’ll achieve its promise as…
Microsoft employees exposed internal passwords in security lapse
Microsoft has resolved a security lapse that exposed internal company files and credentials to the open internet. Security researchers Can Yoleri, Murat Özfidan and Egemen Koçhisarlı with SOCRadar, a cybersecurity…
Microsoft thinks it can beat Apple’s laptop
As the AI race heats up, Microsoft plans to introduce new laptops at an event in Seattle next month. According to people familiar with the matter (via The Verge), the…
TechCrunch Minute: Quantum computing’s next era could be led by Microsoft and Quantinuum
The tech world is incredibly focused on AI and its applications today, but artificial intelligence is hardly the only place where progress is being made. If you want to get…
Microsoft AI gets a new London hub fronted by former Inflection and Deepmind scientist Jordan Hoffmann
Microsoft has announced a new London hub for its recently unveiled consumer AI division. It will be fronted by Jordan Hoffmann, an AI scientist and engineer Microsoft recently picked up from…
Microsoft Edge RAM slider is being tested on Windows
I might be a longtime iPhone and Mac user, but my browser of choice on macOS is Microsoft’s Edge. It’s been my go-to browser for a few years now. It…
LEGO 2K Drive, PGA Tour, more
It feels like we just went through a ton of new games in March, but the Xbox Game Pass train doesn’t stop chugging along. It’s April 2nd, and since Microsoft…
As Microsoft unbundles Teams, it might not have the impact on Slack you think
One of the primary reasons that Slack joined forces with Salesforce in 2021 in a $28 billion deal was to give the communications company the clout to compete with Microsoft.…
Watch: Amazon bets $4B on Anthropic’s success
The current AI wave is a never-ending barrage of news items. To understand what I mean, ask yourself how long you spent considering the fact that Amazon put another $2.75…
Microsoft to unbundle Office and Teams globally following years-long criticism
Microsoft will introduce a new version of Microsoft 365 and Office 365 subscription service that excludes Teams, unbundling a suite following scrutiny from the European Union regulator and complaints from…
Why AWS, Google and Oracle are backing the Valkey Redis fork
The Linux Foundation last week announced that it will host Valkey, a fork of the Redis in-memory data store. Valkey is backed by AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle, Ericsson and Snap.…
The market is forcing cloud vendors to relax data egress fees
In recent months, the big three cloud vendors — Amazon, Microsoft and Google — have relaxed their egress fees, which are a tax of sorts that the cloud companies charge…
Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons
A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denying any parallels between itself and Microsoft…
All-digital Xbox Series X leaked photos reveal a familiar design
About a month ago, gaming blog eXputer reported that the long-rumored disc-less Xbox Series X was set to launch in summer 2024. Other than the release window, much of the…
Startups Weekly: What goes up must come down
Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. Helloooo,…
Here’s how Microsoft is providing a ‘good outcome’ for Inflection AI VCs, as Reid Hoffman promised
Exactly how much Microsoft is paying all the investors of Inflection AI as part its oddly structured deal to abscond with the co-founders, much of the staff and the rights…
After raising $1.3B, Inflection is eaten alive by its biggest investor, Microsoft
In June 2023, Inflection announced it had raised $1.3 billion to build what it called “more personal AI.” The lead investor was Microsoft. Today, less than a year later, Microsoft…
Microsoft hires Inflection founders to run new consumer AI division
Microsoft has hired Mustafa Suleyman and Karén Simonyan, co-founders of high-profile AI startup Inflection AI, and several of their colleagues in one of the strangest deals as the Satya Nadella-led cloud…
Microsoft Bing ads are pestering Chrome users once again
Microsoft simply refuses to get out of its own way. When Windows 11 users made a fuss over a series of bizarre, malware-like pop-ups last year begging Chrome users to…
After AWS and Google, Microsoft says it’s removing Azure ‘egress’ data transfer fees — but with caveats
Microsoft has revealed that it, too, will allow business customers to transfer data out of its Azure cloud infrastructure with no “egress fees” attached, following hot on the heels of…
Copilot Pro custom GPT feature: How it works
One advantage of ChatGPT over the competition is that it lets you create custom GPTs for just about anything. OpenAI has big plans for custom GPTs, considering that it has…
OpenAI says Musk only ever contributed $45 million, wanted to merge with Tesla or take control
OpenAI, the most valuable AI startup, said Wednesday it intends to dismiss all claims made by Elon Musk in a recent lawsuit and suggested that the billionaire entrepreneur, who was…
Windows 11 to lose official support for Android apps
It was only a few years ago — in 2021 — that Windows 11 gained official support for Android apps thanks to a Microsoft-maintained VM called the Windows Subsystem for…
Xbox Game Pass for March 2024: Control, Lightyear Frontier, more
It’s another month, which means that it’s another round of title additions (and subtractions) from Xbox Game Pass. With every new game we welcome with open arms, there is another…
How to watch, what to expect
Well, here I was all stoked for the Rivian R2 event on Thursday, and here comes Xbox with its own event before the company can get it off. Two different…
Microsoft made a $16 million investment in Mistral AI
Yesterday, Mistral AI, a Paris-based AI startup working on foundational models, announced a new large language model that could rival OpenAI’s GPT-4, a chat assistant and a distribution partnership with…
ChatGPT abuse from nation states detailed by Microsoft
We often hear about nation-state hackers being behind cyberattacks, but those nation-states aren’t always named in security reports. When it comes to ChatGPT and Copilot abuse, Microsoft and OpenAI are…
Xbox just revealed a Dune-themed controller and console
I was already hyped for Dune: Part Two, but then Xbox had to come in and mix my love of film with my love of gaming — making the hype…
How to tune in and what to expect
Ever since Microsoft finalized the acquisition of Activision Blizzard in October for $69 billion, we’ve all been waiting for Phil Spencer to climb down from his ivory tower and declare…
Microsoft wants you to take over the world with its Copilot AI
YOU. Microsoft wants you to take over the world with AI. That’s the one word that makes this all veer slightly away from being an ad for the next Terminator…
Microsoft brings new design-focused features to Copilot
Copilot, Microsoft’s family of AI-powered chatbots and assistants, is getting a few new upgrades timed with a flashy Superbowl LVIII ad campaign. In a post on the official Microsoft blog,…
Microsoft CEO Nadella on AI LLM race: ‘We are waiting for competition to arrive’
Microsoft’s prescient bets and aggressive investments in AI have propelled the software giant to become the world’s most valuable company. Yet Satya Nadella, its typically reserved chief executive, couldn’t resist…
Cloud infrastructure saw its biggest revenue growth ever in Q4
For the last several quarters we’ve seen a lull in the expansion of the cloud infrastructure market, with lower growth numbers than we’ve been accustomed to seeing in the past.…
The Taylor Swift deepfake debacle was frustratingly preventable
You know you’ve screwed up when you’ve simultaneously angered the White House, the TIME Person of the Year, and pop culture’s most rabid fanbase. That’s what happened last week to…
Hackers breached Microsoft to find out what Microsoft knows about them
Wouldn’t you want to know what tech giants know about you? That’s exactly what Russian government hackers want, too. On Friday, Microsoft disclosed that the hacking group it calls Midnight…
Microsoft makes its AI-powered reading tutor free
Microsoft today made Reading Coach, its AI-powered tool that provides learners with personalized reading practice, available at no cost to anyone with a Microsoft account. As of this morning, Reading…
The mobile regulatory landscape is changing at an inconvenient time for Apple
The prospect of losing billions in revenue is never good news, even if you are Apple Alex Wilhelm Anna Heim 8 hours TechCrunch primarily covers the startup world, but we…
Microsoft wants to add a Copilot key to your PC keyboard
Microsoft would like 2024 to be the “year of the AI PC” and to put a point on that, the company today announced a new key for Copilot — that…